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  NIST Publication on Digital Identity Guidelines

  A simple Google search in the last week of the terms ‘biometrics’ and ‘password’ will result in thousands of hits on articles projecting the death of passwords as we know them in favor of biometric security measures. Finger, face, iris, palm, vein – the list goes on and on with each modalities champion predicting that […]

  Posted on February 13, 2017

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  Department of Homeland Security Rushing to Roll Out Facial Recognition Surveillance System

  While Aliya Sternstein correctly describes the situation at US airports in this article when she says “The Department of Homeland Security is rushing to roll out a multibillion dollar facial recognition surveillance system that will equip US airports with facial recognition software”, she doesn’t mention that the Entry-Exit task in front of DHS also includes land and sea […]

  Posted on February 10, 2017

• Smile! You’re on Camera and it Knows Who You Are

  One of our partners was quoted in a timely BBC article: Carl Gohringer, founder and director at Allevate, a facial recognition firm that works with law enforcement, intelligence and government agencies, says: “The amount of media – such as videos and photos – available to us as individuals, organizations and businesses, and to intelligence and […]

  Posted on February 9, 2017

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  Facial Recognition is the Government’s New Weapon

  Our partner Tygart’s facial recognition product was recently mentioned in a rising industry article. “…the Georgetown Law report found that five police agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department, are currently experimenting with real-time face recognition systems. One system used by an intelligence “fusion center” in West Virginia, called “MXserver” boasts the ability to ping a human […]

  Posted on February 7, 2017

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  Video Game Firm Cleared of Violating Biometric Privacy

  Biometric privacy claims over facial recognition feature in the video game NBA 2K were dismissed for lack of concrete harm The lawsuit and the ruling were focused on non-security-based collections of biometric data, in this case, facial images. The ruling in favor of Take-Two it makes you wonder if this will set precedence in other […]

  Posted on February 3, 2017